"!!!" Ivan noticed he wasn't alone anymore. His doppelganger walked forward.

"Ivan, you must face your weakness. I am Vain, your Venus incarnation. Your wind powers are nothing to me! Gaia!"

Vain blasted open the earth with an explosion! Slightly burnt, Ivan used Breeze to increase his elemental resistance. "Destruct Ray!"

"Barricade!" A protective Psynergy aura shielded him from Ivan's thunderbolts!

"No way! Was that…a Djinn?!"

"Yes. Just as Sol Sanctum has Djinni within, Luna Sanctum had its own set. The one I used is very similar to Granite and Flash, is it not?"

"Grr…"

Vain slashed with a sword! Blood leaked from Ivan's shoulder. Then the clone cast a barrage of status problems! "Delude! Haunt! Curse!" These afflictions hurt Ivan enough to bring him to his knees!

"Now it's time to finish you. Grand Gaia!!!" Similar to his earlier spell, the earth opened with massive energy flowing out. But this time the explosion was much larger. Ivan's image disappeared into the flames…

The Venus Adept stood triumphant. "Hah! You couldn't take the heat…." Then he got concerned. "Where's the blasted body? Surely it's still mostly intact…"

"Squall!" Ivan emerged from the invisibility of Haze and stunned Vain! Then he unleashed his fourth Djinn, Waft. A massive pocket of air smashed down upon him, crushing Vain and sending rocks and snow flying!

"It's time to finish you. Thor!!" Ivan called forth a Viking god with a mighty hammer, which charged and zapped the Venus clone with an incredible amount of electricity! Vain faded into the lightning…